31.   He has allowed the former military ruler, Gen. Robert Guei, also a Christian, to remain free, even though the military regime committed many atrocities.

32.   He said he had hoped that the new military ruler would not try to cling to power, the way others have typically done in Africa.

33.   Hopes for a dialogue have faded, and the struggle between the military rulers and their democratic opponents is now one of heightened confrontation.

34.   In Ghana, a former military ruler, Jerry Rawlings, has accepted the ground rules of democracy.

35.   In September Clinton also barred the military rulers from entering the United States and banned arms sales.

36.   In Nigeria, ruled by brutal generals for most of its independent history, Pentecostal ministers have never challenged the military rulers, as Catholic priests have.

37.   In Paris, Caramanlis spoke out against the military rulers.

38.   It is a tactic advocated by Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, to the fury of the military rulers.

39.   Military rulers claim they can push through reforms because they do not have to make deals with entrenched political interests.

40.   Of course, anti-business fanatics delight in squawking about the occasional tiffs between the people of Burma and their military rulers.